Alfreda Johnson Quotes & Sayings

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. — George Carlin

Then I remembered that I had yet to learn, if I ever was to learn, how strongly people in love could feel. In any event, I was the last person in the world to judge anyone as foolishly impulsive, for this was my own greatest fault. — Madeleine Brent

When we say that the Arabs are the aggressors and we defend ourselves
that is only half the truth. As regards our security and life we defendourselves ... But the fighting is only one aspect of the conflict,which is in its essence a political one. And politically we are the aggressors and theydefend themselves. — David

Dortmunder and the Major strolled away down the long corridor overlooking customs, with the duty-free shops on one side of the corridor and on the other side the railing where people can stand and look down at their returning relatives and visiting foreign friends being degraded. — Donald E. Westlake

So many Americans felt that their neighbor had no right to know more than they did. — John Dos Passos

There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a discovery. — Tom Robbins

Emptiness crowded out joy and silence replaced meaning, but the Son is shining. — Jonah Books

Tessa had begun to tremble. This is what she had always wanted someone to say. What she had always, in the darkest corner of her heart, wanted Will to say. Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even when she was furious. And here he was standing in front of her, telling her he loved the words of her heart, the shape of her soul. Telling her something she had never imagined anyone would ever tell her. Telling her something she would never be told again, not in this way. And not by him.
And it did not matter.
"It's too late", she said. — Cassandra Clare

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't. — Carrie Fisher

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal. — Novalis

So I am hoping my second outing to your wonderful university turns out differently because it would be highly embarrassing if I said "good evening Yaleites" or "Yalers" or whatever you guys are called, and got stuck at ... yaaaaa ... that wouldn't make for much of a speech. — Shahrukh Khan

The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above. — Anne Bradstreet

My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none left for you. — Elizabeth Bear

Let no man's deathbed be a futon. — Demetri Martin